Upgrading XFree86 4.1 to 4.2

[Susan Macchia]

Thanks!  This was exactly what I was looking for !

Douglas J Hunley wrote:
>On Sunday 07 April 2002 19:31, Susan Macchia wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm running a pretty much stock SuSE 7.3 distro running XFree 4.1.1 with
>> kde 2.2.1 and gnome 1.4.
>>
>> I'm thinking of upgrading to XFree86 4.2 and was wondering if I'd have to
>> update my kde and gnome packages.  Having never upgraded X before, I didn't
>> know if this'd break my system.  I do have a test partition w/ a stock SuSE
>> 7.3 install that I'll probably try it on first, but was wondering if there
>> was anything obvious I should look out for.
>
>you shouldn't have to mess w/ gnome or kde. use the suse supplied rpms. they 
>are on ftp.suse.com in /pub/suse/i386/updates/7.3/ in a subdir called 
>something like supplemental. IIRC
>-- 
>Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778
>Admin: Linux StepByStep - http://www.linux-sxs.org
>        and http://jobs.linux-sxs.org
>


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